Books like The Girl Who Loves Bugs
By Lily Murray
For the kid who arrives at the dinner table with pockets full of rocks, snails, or whatever crawled by that afternoon, Evie is proof that a wild enthusiasm is worth holding onto. Warm, funny, and a little chaotic — messy family love with dirt under its fingernails.
A baby with a booming voice, a habit of giving away his birthday presents, and a strange love of chimneys grows up to become Santa — one odd little clue at a time.
An awkward naked mole rat with thick glasses and a love of interpretive dance and fungus identification goes looking for other mushroom-obsessed friends who understand her.
A grumpy seed with a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude who cuts in line and stares at everybody decides he's tired of being bad — and wonders if he can change.
A crocodile mistakenly turns up under the tree on Christmas Eve and starts eating everything in sight — the roast, the stove, even the tree — while one girl fights to save him.
After an exhausting Christmas, a worn-out Santa trades the North Pole for sunny Mistletoe Island, surfing and golfing his way into retirement — leaving the reindeer and elves to wonder if Christmas can happen without him.
A newly hatched bird tumbles from his nest and sets off alone to find his mother, asking a kitten, a hen, a dog, and even a giant machine called a Snort if they're the one he's looking for.
A crayon labeled red is actually blue inside, and no matter how hard he tries — drawing strawberries, mixing orange with a classmate — he just can't make red marks, until a new friend sees him differently.
A know-it-all big sister explains exactly what babies are like — they eat books instead of reading them, scream with a special plug in their mouth, and don't even know if they're a boy or a girl.
A girl devoted to all things fancy — frilly clothes, sparkly shoes, and the fanciest words she can find — sets out to transform her plain, ordinary family into fancy company for one special evening.
A beloved dinosaur bakes cookies, helps old ladies cross the street, and plays with kids in town — while one boy, Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie, insists she's scientifically extinct and shouldn't exist at all.
A Puerto Rican girl grows up surrounded by love and pride in her Taíno and African heritage, but painful treatment from the world slowly dims her sense of her own beauty — until her community rallies to wake her up again.
A small boy runs, jumps, and makes a mess through page after page of trouble, hearing one word from his mom again and again — until he finally gets the hug he needed all along.
